{"product_id":"9788493923150","title":"On Loos, Ornament and Crime: Columns of Smoke: Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eColumns of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e series, Juan José Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special focus on how they have been treated in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the first volume of \u003ci\u003eColumns of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e considered epoch-making architect Adolf Loos’s relationship with photography, here Lahuerta turns to the Classical strand in Loos’s architecture and to his written work—and specifically his engagement with architectural and artistic theory. Lahuerta pays particular attention to Loos’s seminal “Ornament and Crime,” the essay that established disornamentation as the signal feature of twentieth-century architecture. Through close analysis of that essay he unearths the racially charged, pseudoscientific ideas from early anthropology that underpin Loos’s thinking. Sure to be controversial, this new reading of Loos’s landmark writings calls the whole disornamentation project into question, and in the process, it reveals a radically new perspective on a major turn in modern design and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenov Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059501678832,"sku":"9788493923150","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788493923150_p0.jpg?v=1763746860","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788493923150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}